Everyone will recognize their own. There were, Saturday evening after 8 p.m., two types of ministers expressing their gratitude on the social network X: those who thanked the president and the prime minister for having appointed them and those who gave thanks to the prime minister alone. The 45e government of the Ve The Republic is already divided between Emmanuel Macron’s loyalists and Michel Barnier’s allies.
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First announced on the BFM-TV set, then by the secretary general of the presidency, Alexis Kohler, a few minutes later, from the winter garden of the Elysée, this new executive is similar to an army of unknowns, in which Rachida Dati is a heavyweight. It is “a Barnier government”, they commented laconicly at the Elysée, as if to distance themselves from a lackluster team, which is marking the end of the overtaking.
A significant number of new faces were needed to mask the continuity: seven ministers from the Attal government were reappointed, despite the defeat of the presidential camp in the legislative elections. It was also necessary to dismiss the stars likely to engage in the race for the Élysée (Xavier Bertrand, Gérald Darmanin, Bruno Le Maire, David Lisnard, Valérie Pécresse, Laurent Wauquiez, etc.), in order to keep this fragile government away from the upheavals of the next presidential election. Finally, several personalities simply refused to join this crisis government, with an uncertain lifespan.
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This ” team “, according to the Prime Minister, who gave birth in pain after two weeks of intense negotiations, is also seriously unbalanced. Emmanuel Macron had set an unattainable goal for his Prime Minister, ” to come as close as possible to national unity “But only the former socialist deputy Didier Migaud, president of the High Authority for Transparency in Public Life (HATVP), gave in to the sirens of the executive power, which earned him second place in the protocol order.
A “delicate profile”
This close friend of Laurent Fabius, who left political life in 2010, succeeds, at 72 years old, Eric Dupond-Moretti at the Ministry of Justice. Where he will have to agree with the new Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau. The latter, the embodiment of the conservative right, whose announced nomination has aroused the indignation of the Macronists and the MoDem, is challenged on the issues of immigration and security, while he has constantly denounced the “laxity” of Macronie on these issues. “The French expect only one thing from public officials: results. So I am here to act, with a single watchword: restore order to ensure harmony.”said the elected official from Vendée on X, after his nomination.
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